You can simply select everything and click the Clean button, but we would recommend looking through the Downloads section first to make sure you don’t delete something you want to keep.įor us, it found 29.84GB of data that could potentially be cleaned up. However, AVG Cleaner is available completely free of charge, so while it may be limited, it’s okay for something that won’t cost you anything.Īfter running a scan, AVG Cleaner will enable you to quickly delete downloads, trashed files, application caches, junk files and logs. There are no security features, no optimization tools and really nothing beyond the basics. That’s much less than the majority of Mac cleaning software.
Price: $10.95 a month for one Mac, $71.40 a year for one Mac, or $89.40 a year for three MacsĪvailable to download from the App Store, AVG has only two functions: Disk Cleaner and Duplicate Finder.If it can help with your Mac’s security, maintenance or optimization, it’s probably included in MacKeeper. It also found 12 outdated apps and various security issues, including that our email address had been associated with a data breach somewhere. This is lower than some of the other apps, because MacKeeper doesn’t doesn’t search for large file or automatically include your entire downloads folder.
In our case, it found 13.46GB of junk, plus duplicate files and data left over from uninstalled applications. This scans for problems related to security, cleaning, privacy and performance, and then remedies them. And like CleanMyMac X and MacCleaner Pro, it includes a smart scan feature called Find & Fix.
MacKeeper also incorporates a memory cleaner, an update tracker, a duplicates finder, a smart uninstaller and the ability to tweak your Mac’s startup items. Just enter your email address, and MacKeeper will let you know if your account is ever found in collections of breached data found on the web. Not only is it a junk cleaner and optimization tool, helping to speed up your computer it also includes real-time antivirus protection, and it offers VPN (virtual private network) access.Īnother interesting security feature is ID Theft Guard. MacKeeper has a couple of tricks up its sleeve that other Mac cleaners don’t.
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Thankfully, there are plenty of applications that will scan and remove all that clutter for you. But a large part of it will also include unnecessary data that just clogs up your Mac, slowing it down and taking up space. A lot of that information is stuff you want - your documents, photos, videos, and so on. For more of our Mac app picks, check out our Mac apps archive.The more you use your Mac, the more it will accumulate files and other data. Know of a great Mac app that we haven't highlighted yet? Let us know in the comments below and we might feature it in a future video. There's a $29 one-time payment option that unlocks a year of updates, or users can pay $8 per month for continual updates. It can do screen recordings and capture screenshots even if the content doesn't fit all on one screen. It's simple to capture whatever you want on your screen, annotate it, and send it off, plus there's a cloud component that saves everything in one spot.
With the tool, you can customize your controls to mimic how alt tab works on Windows, quickly swapping between your open app windows and manipulating them with simple keyboard commands.
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